How to view a Deleted records data using journal data

Question

I have a table that has journal data.

I ran the following command to output the journal data to a table( P6TMPLIB1 ) for me to query.

DSPJRN JRN(#MXJRN/P6) FILE((P6PRDBDB00/P6prodPF)) ENTTYP(*RCD) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILFMT(*TYPE3) OUTFILE(p6prdbdb00/P6TMPLIB1)

When I do a select from P6TMPLIB1 I get the following.

With this data I can see that there was a Delete but in the JOESD field there is no data.

If theres an update to the table I can see the data in the field JOESD

What I want to see is what data was deleted or the key of the record that was deleted.

Is this posible? And how do I view the DL record?

Answer 1

In order to see the deleted record data, your file has to be set to journal before and after records. STRJRNPF IMAGES(*BOTH)

At this point, there's not much you can do.

However, what you could do is sort the journal output by RRN and SEQ#. Hopefully you'll be able to see the last write. Thus you'll know what was there when it was deleted.

Unfortunately, that technique becomes much more difficult if you're re-using deleted records or doing RGZPFM.

Answer 2

Use this technique How-to-view-journal-data-of-a-table-green-screen . 15 years and I haven't found a better way to analize journals.